Three Films: Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge PUB19970902 Abu-Lughod explores the elements of

Abu-Lughod explores the elements of developmentalist ideology and the visions of national progress that once dominated Egyptian television--now experiencing a crisis

a respected biology professor explains his gradual conversion from dogmatic belief in evolution to biblical creation

ISBN-10: 007174164X

Essays on the political

Three Films: Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge PUB19970902 Abu-Lughod explores the elements ofFrom The New York Trilogy to The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster's novels have earned him a reputation as one of American's most spectacularly inventive writers. Here, published together for the first time, are the screenplays of the three films he made in the 1990s. Smoke (starring Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker, and Stockard Channing) tells the story of a novelist, a cigar store manager, and a black teenager who unexpectedly cross paths